Art Trap Productions

September 2009

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I have no idea why, but wired.com had this video on their site today. It features David Tennant and Russell T Davies at San Diego Comic Con talking about Doctor Who and in particular some of the difficulties they had with the bus in the then most recent special, Planet of the Dead.

I guess I'm biased. I just love the Benny audios now. They can do no wrong. This story is fun filled, danger filled, and exiciting in several senses of the word. I'm not sure it's for children though to be honest and in fact, I'm sure it's not. It's very funny and frolicking. I'm also not sure of the politics going on but I love every second of this. Benny is very funny, Peter and his dad Adrian are very caring and love Benny and come off like real people. In short, this spin off has become everything that it wasn't and everything DW can never be: grounded and yet a spacey fun filled adventure anyway. With DW you either get one or the other, never both and of late, nothing DW has done in any spinoff or special can come close to what they are doing in the Benny audios. And for me it all started in the last part of the 8th Benny audio season.

Kai Owen (Rhys Williams on Torchwood) will head up an emergency Wales charity volunteer drive for Save the Children according to a report in Walesonline.co.uk. The charity is looking for emergency workers to raise money when disaster hits such as earthquakes, typhoons, disease outbreaks, etc.

"When an emergency strikes, Save the Children leap into action so they can reach children and families caught up in a disaster as quickly as possible," Kai stated.

For many Doctor Who fans, especially those of a certain age (and it still upsets me that I can now use that phrase about myself!), the biggest news of the summer - with the exception of the first pictures of the 11th Doctor - has been the return of Tom Baker to the role that made him a national institution and an icon all over the world. Yes, the 4th Doctor is back - in a 5 part audio adventure called Hornet's Nest from BBC Audio. It's been almost 30 years since the 4th Doctor had a new adventure. 30 years since those wonderful warm and throaty tones have been part of a new Doctor Who story.

Richard Curtis, known to most for creating the popular Blackadder series starring Rowan Atkinson and for romantic comedies like Four Weddings and a Funeral has told The Sun that he will be writing a story for the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith).

Curtis, aged 52, revealed, "There will be a monster. And a famous historical figure will battle the monster." He can not reveal much more.

Some of speculated that the historical figure could be none other than Sir Edmund Blackadder himself. Though this is just speculation.

Holy crap! This is 10/10 or 5/5. This is what DW should always be like! And most of the time it is but this is a notch above even itself. It's almost as if it doesn't know it's so great. Lyrical, poetic, beautiful in both time zones, colorful, sad, funny, chilling, warm, and a bit offbeat, this is just amazing. Is this DW? Certainly not the same DW that...well, never mind. It's just great.